??? Video shows Bin Laden 'in false beard'

[babylonsister]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2941864.ece

Video shows Bin Laden 'in false beard'
By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Published: 08 September 2007

The US government is analysing videotape that appears to show Osama bin Laden in a false beard, marking the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

American intelligence sources told ABC News that the video message was authentic, recently produced and proves that the al-Qai'da leader is still alive. US authorities have a transcript, which they say encourages potential suicide bombers to commit missions against the West.

Evidence that Bin Laden is still directing al-Qai'da operations, despite the best efforts of the US military and a $50m (£25m) price on his head, will be a blow to President George Bush who staked his reputation on winning the "war on terror".

In a banner ad for the video, the al-Qai'da leader, now aged 50, looked fit, with a full beard of dark black hair, rather than his usual grey-streaked beard. Instead of the customary combat jacket, he was wearing Arabic robes.

"It does look oddly as if he is wearing a false beard," Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorism official, said. "If we go back to the tape three years ago, he had a very white beard. This looks like a phoney beard that has been passed on."

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[Demit]

1. Very clever disguise, that. Put on a different colored beard so you don't look three years older.

He can now move among us undetected! Nobody would recognize him because we know his beard MUST STILL BE GRAY!

LOL, sorry. If there's something in the story that redeems Richard Clarke after making this dumb statement, I didn't click through.

[rocktivity]

2. First they leaked it, and NOW they're examining it?

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